Create your own at Storyboard ThatHI my name is makena. I want to learn about your time it seamed really interesting. Cool i would love to tell you. Our time was tough but it is cool to learn about! Introduction 5.1 Sumer was a challenging place to live in . It had little rain and the river flooded the crops Wow that must of been tough for you. Did it lower your food population? Yeah that was a big problem for us it really shortaged our food supply. 5.2 Characteristics of civilasation 5.3 Stabel food supply We needed a stable food supply to live So we made complex irrigation system. So we built canals and dams yo help provide the crops with the right amount of water. What is a irragation system? A irragation system is supplying water to crops. So we used that to help with our crops. 5.4 Social structure To also keep a healthy life we needed jobs. Like preist and landowners and goverment officals. We also needed metelworkers. And we had jewerly makers and other everyday uses. Wow those are a lot different then our jobs today. What do you mean every day jobs? Everyday jobs meaning making food. Helping the crops. Kind of like your kind of chores. 5.5 Goverment We needed goverment to keep us orginized and irected. Our states were rued by kings. Sumerian kings made the laws . o ok so your king is like our president ? yeah the king is the ruller of the city state. 5.6 Religion Religion helped us believe in our gods and give us hope. Sumeriane tried to please there gods. They would express there believes by building towers and tempels named after there gods. Wow thats cool how they believed in there gods and reliogin so much.